Technologies

Job description

We are looking for a smart and motivated individual to join the fast-moving Professional Services team in London for our Integrated Video platform. As media consumers we’re witnessing an unbelievable explosion of media devices, channels and content. Generating and meeting this demand are media companies – both established and new entrants – who have the challenge of capturing audience share by delivering the right media to the right audience at the right time – and making a profit from doing so.

To deliver this, media companies are experiencing unparalleled levels of complexity in their media operations. Media value chains consisting of silos of legacy and new systems are managed through complex business rules with heavy reliance on human activity. The goal is to take these complex operations and make money from them through increasing productivity, reducing operational expense and achieving more sales, while getting content to consumers as quickly as possible.

You will work with varied clients every day across traditional Broadcast, OVP, syndication and production, as well as emerging video markets, and also work with your internal project teams so you must be an excellent communicator.

You will have a deep technical background and be naturally curious and intelligent. You are also upbeat, a multi-tasker and self-starter; capable of inspiring your colleagues on and offshore. Above all you will be able to balance your passion for technology with a drive to deliver successful client projects, innovating and using pragmatism in equal measure.

Core Skills

Experience of architecting solutions/systems to meet high and low-level requirements.

Ability to deliver solutions that strike an appropriate ROI balance, understanding when requirements need to be met, and when clients will accept push-back.

Thorough and practical experience of online video, workflow or production/delivery lifecycles in the media industry.

Extensive coding/scripting experience, ideally in a Java based language.

Experience of dealing with clients/external stakeholders.

Excellent organisational and timeline management skills.

Excellent written English and spoken communication skills.

Required Attitude

Be able to research and provide technical solutions to problems

You should have a keen interest in the media space and multimedia technologies with a particular focus on production, OTT, VOD, workflow and media management and video transcoding, media streaming and content distribution on the internet.

Key Duties

Maintaining excellent client relationships and being a technical ambassador for our platform with clients and the industry

Gathering requirements from clients and converting these into a solution that can be delivered using our Media Logistics platform

Working with the PS team (on and off shore) to communicate solutions and plans, oversee delivery and get hands-on yourself

Looking ahead to ensure we have what we need to deliver success to our clients

Innovating around our platform to expand our offering into new markets/regions

Reporting to the Regional Director of Professional Services on progress, and what your region needs to succeed

Non-mandatory Technical Skills (it would be great if you had one or more)

Life at Ooyala

About Ooyala

For over 10 years, Ooyala has been at the forefront of shaping the OTT and media workflow revolutions as a leading provider of software and solutions that optimize the production, distribution, and monetization of media.

National Rugby League, Dell, Sky Sports and Media Prima are global customers that rely on the Ooyala Flex Media Platform to successfully produce, manage, and distribute media and become more efficient, more open and more extensible to meet the evolving needs of their viewers.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ooyala is a US-based subsidiary of global telecommunications and IT services company, Telstra, with offices in Chennai, Cologne, Dallas, Guadalajara, London, Madrid, New York, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, and sales operations in many other countries across the glob